Best 61 Tech Blogs of 2021
This is a list of the best blogs in tech. Each blog has been handpicked by a me (a fellow developer). Most center around a specific language or tech stack, some are about tech entrepreneurship or careers.
Key criteria
I look for quality articles, written by someone who is writing from personal experience. The quality of the content is more important than how long an article is, but I do favour blogs which are kept updated with new posts on a regular basis.
The best Tech blogs you should follow
1. Smashing Magazine Blog
Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information to web designers and developers. The goal is to support the community with articles about the latest trends and techniques in web development. We try our best to impress you not with the quantity but with the quality of the articles we publish. We hope that makes us different. Smashing Magazine is, and always has been, independent.
Better Documentation And Team Communication With Product Design Docs
Have you ever struggled to get the green light on your design proposals? Do you feel like your design process needs to be formalized? Is the COVID19 era becoming a challenge for you when working remot...
Flaky Tests: Getting Rid Of A Living Nightmare In Testing
Unreliable tests are a living nightmare for anyone who writes automated tests or pays attention to the results. Flaky tests have even given folks nightmares and sleepless nights. In this article, Ramo...
2. Awwwards Blog
The awards that recognize the talent and effort of the best web designers, developers and agencies in the world.
3. Overreacted Blog
Working on React.js. Co-author of Redux and Create React App. Building tools for humans.
Before You memo()
Rendering optimizations that come naturally.
4. Normcore Tech Blog
Hi! I'm Vicki Boykis. I'm a consultant in data science and machine learning. I write about making tech less sexy, more bring, and anything adjacent to tech that the mainstream media isn't covering
The luxury of length
Hi Friends, It’s been a while since my last post, almost a month, as the dashboard shows. But it’s not like I haven’t been thinking about it.I’ve been meaning to write a good long post for the past mo...
The last miles and miles of the vaccine
One web dev versus the System
5. Dev.to Blog
DEV is a community of software developers getting together to help one another out. The software industry relies on collaboration and networked learning. We provide a place for that to happen.
Sudoku Solver - A Visualizer made using Backtracking Algorithm
Introduction: Sudoku is one of the most popular logic-based number-placement puzzle game. The literal meaning of "Su-doku" in Japanese is "the number that is single". The objective is to fill a nine-b...
Dangers and opportunities of technical Disneyland vol.2 – becoming a leader in SaaS company
If you do something well enough, after some time your skill is worth teaching other people. In the second part of the interview, we continue to talk with Filip, Head of the Platform in LiveChat about ...
6. We Learn Code Blog
Hi! I'm Ali Spittel. I'm a (mostly) self-taught software engineer, who loves teaching people to code. I am currently a Senior Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services. I'm 1/3 of the Ladybug Podcast
My Desk Setup
Whenever I post a picture of my desk, I get asked what's on it, so I thought I should write it all down! First, here's a picture of the…
Introducing the AWS Amplify Admin UI: Create an Application Backend in Clicks
I am so, so excited about the brand new Amplify Admin UI, which the team that I'm on at work launched this week. You can create and…
7. Hacker Noon Blog
Hacker Noon is built for technologists to read, write, and publish. We are an open and international community of 12,000+ contributing writers publishing stories and expertise for 4,000,000+ curious and insightful monthly readers.
Developing Finsterwald Amid a Pandemic: A Startup CEO in The Trenches
Former Huawei manager Peter Stieglbauer talks about Decentralization, Gaming, and Funding for their new VR 3D game, FINSTERWALD Read the full story
Online Privacy is Not an Option: It's a Necessity
How the challenge of protecting personal information online led to data protection and privacy laws in the EU and U.S.Read the full story
8. A List Apart Blog
Since 1998, the design magazine for people who make websites.
9. UI.dev Blog
Comprehensive learning resources for mastering the JavaScript ecosystem.
React Newsletter #243
News React Query v3 Released This major release includes better SSR, bi-directional infinite queries, selectors, and much more. Electron React Boilerplate v2 Released This update includes changes like...
I don’t make libs for free, I make ’em for freedom
GitHub’s New Treats from GH Universe '90s Nickelodeon hit different GitHub Universe happened last week — and yes, we heard about dark mode 🌛. When we first saw the announcement video, we thought it m...
10. Valentino Gagliardi Blog
I write about Django and JavaScript
2020, my year in review
Here's what happened in my 2020
Testing Django with Cypress, how nice!
In this post I share some recipes for testing Django with Cypress, with a focus on the authentication flow.
11. Dailygrind Blog
My name is Sergio Martino and I am Frontend Software Engineer from Italy, living in Hertfordshire, UK. I am passionate about products, User Experience and real-world technology that makes sense in the context.
A 2020 retrospective
This past year has been a wild ride. Our communities have been through what has been one of the worst years in history, one that transformed how we live, work and socialise. Some of these changes are ...
12. Crunchy Data Blog
We provide educational material on all things Postgres.
Announcing Google Cloud Storage (GCS) Support for pgBackRest
Crunchy Data is pleased to announce its most recent release of pgBackRest: 2.33 with a number of new features including multiple repository support and GCS support. With pgBackRest 2.33 we are especia...
Database Terminology Explained: Postgres High Availability and Disaster Recovery
In my day to day, I'm surrounded by great database engineers. They talk about things like HA and raft protocol and the right and wrong approach for configuring synchronous vs. asynchronous replication...
13. JavaScript Scene Blog
Writing about JavaScript, software leadership, software development, and related technologies.
14. Robin Wieruch Blog
I am a german software engineer from Berlin, working remotely most of the time. I graduated from university with a Master of Science in Computer Science. Most of my work is open source, I write to help others learn how to be better coders.
Are React class components going away?
Are React class components going away in favor of React Hooks? Modern React with Hooks kinda deprecated React class components ...
React useReducer with Middleware
Learn how to use React's useReducer Hook with a middleware (and afterware) by using a custom hook for the reducer ...
15. Bram Van Damme Blog
Freelance Web Developer from Belgium. Main topics are web related technologies (CSS, JS, PHP, …), along with other geeky things (robots, space, …) and personal interests (cartography, music, movies, …).
Dark mode in 5 minutes, with inverted lightness variables
Lea Verou shows a method to implement dark mode, not by swapping entire colors, but by simply changing their lightness The basic idea is to use custom properties for the lightness of colors instead of...
Accessible front-end components: claims vs reality
Great post by Hidde, warning about blindly trusting accessibility claims. Not all ‘accessible components’ are created equal, some will work a lot better for our end users than other. In this post I ha...
16. Ultimate Courses Blog
We write guides and provide resources to help you learn new technologies the right way.
React Newsletter #243
News React Query v3 Released This major release includes better SSR, bi-directional infinite queries, selectors, and much more. Electron React Boilerplate v2 Released This update includes changes like...
I don’t make libs for free, I make ’em for freedom
GitHub’s New Treats from GH Universe '90s Nickelodeon hit different GitHub Universe happened last week — and yes, we heard about dark mode 🌛. When we first saw the announcement video, we thought it m...
17. Dave Ceddia Blog
I’m a software engineer in the Boston area. My blog contains my best answers to questions that UI developers struggle with. Most of the posts are about React or Angular, with a few other random things thrown in
ESLint + VSCode: How to Format Your Code Using .eslintrc
I’ve gotten very used to having VSCode autoformat my file when I save. Usually, I use Prettier. But I joined a project that uses ESLint to manage its code style, and I wanted to match the team’s forma...
How to Read React Errors (fix 'Cannot read property of undefined'!)
Got an error like this in your React component? Cannot read property `map` of undefined In this post we’ll talk about how to fix this one specifically, and along the way you’ll learn how to approach f...
18. JavaScript in Plain English Blog
Daily articles on mastering JavaScript and front-end technologies.
How to Create An SVG Animation Illustration For Your Website
SVG Animations can make a website more creativeContinue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
How to Protect Routes in Angular From Unauthorized Access
Learn how to use the AuthGuard to protect routes in Angular.Continue reading on JavaScript in Plain English »
19. Julia Evans Blog
I’m a software developer. I have one main opinion about programming, which is that deeply understanding the underlying systems you use (the browser, the kernel, the operating system, the network layers, your database, HTTP, whatever you’re running on top of) is essential if you want to do technically innovative work and be able to solve hard problems.
20. a11y with Lindsey Blog
Currently, I am a Senior UI Engineer, Accessibility lead at Medallia. My mission is to empower developers to make their Internet, an inclusive Internet.
21. Una Kravets Online Blog
I'm a Brooklyn-based developer who's making the web more styleable as a Developer Advocate at Google Chrome.
2020 in Review
Well this year absolutely sucked. But I'll try to take a look at the positive.
Cross-browser paint worklets and Houdini.how
Supercharging your CSS with Houdini paint worklets is just a few clicks away.
22. Josh W Comeau Blog
My goal with this blog is to create helpful content for front-end web devs, and my newsletter is no different! It includes early previews to upcoming posts and access to special bonus goodies.
Building a Magical 3D Button
Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and uninspired. In this tutorial, we'll build an animated 3D button with HTML and CSS that sparks joy.
The Importance of Learning CSS
I know so many super-talented developers who share the same achilles heel: CSS. Instead of trying to “outrun” CSS, this article explores why leaning in and going deeper can be a tremendous boon for yo...
23. Kent C Dodds Blog
I work for myself full-time as an educator. I create content all about Web Development on various platforms including: egghead.io, Frontend Masters, YouTube, Twitter, and my own sites like TestingJavaScript.com 🏆 and EpicReact.Dev 🚀
Super Simple Start to ESModules in Node.js
I've posted a new article "Super Simple Start to ESModules in Node.js" and you can read it online. All supported versions of Node.js support ESModules now. Here's how to get started using them. You ca...
JavaScript Closures
I've posted a new article "JavaScript Closures" and you can read it online. How to work with them... and around them You can also subscribe for weekly emails on what I'm learning, working on, and writ...
24. Shawn Swyx Wang Blog
I am a frontend/serverless developer, normally based out of NYC but currently in Singapore. I am a frequent writer and speaker and recently published The Coding Career Handbook for Junior to Senior Engineers.
Reflexive McLuhanism
First we shape X, then X shapes us.
Set Explicit Help Timeouts
A simple way to normalize asking for help.
25. Tom MacWright Blog
I helped build, design, and grow Observable as the first hire. I write about coding, life and various projects.
The return of fancy tools
Technology is seeing a little return to complexity. Dreamweaver gave way to hand-coding websites, which is now leading into Webflow, which is a lot like Dreamweaver. Evernote give way to minimal Markd...
Vendor by default
This isn’t a recommendation. It’s more of a habit that I’ve acquired recently. If this makes its way to Hacker News and people think how could he, my only response will be 🤷, why not. I’ve been build...
26. Dave Page Blog
I'm a PostgreSQL hacker and core team member, and Chief Architect, Tools & Installers at EnterpriseDB working mainly on installers and admin tools for Postgres.
27. Haki Benita Blog
A software developer and a technical lead. I take special interest in databases, web development, software design and performance tuning.
Exciting New Features in Django 3.2
Django 3.2 is just around the corner and it's packed with new features. Django versions are usually not that exciting (it's a good thing!), but this time many features were added to the ORM, so I find...
The Unexpected Find That Freed 20GB of Unused Index Space
Every few months we get an alert from our database monitoring to warn us that we are about to run out of space. Usually we just provision more storage and forget about it, but this time we were under ...
28. Renan Moura Blog
I write about software development, machine learning and building a career in tech.
29. codebar Blog
codebar is a non-profit initiative that facilitates the growth of a diverse tech community by running free weekly programming workshops.
Careers at Compare the Market
Ahead of our career panel, we sat down with our 4 panelists from Compare the Market to get to know them a little more.Sarah Vandervliet — Junior Software EngineerWhat did you want to be growing up?I h...
Makers Scholarship
We are extremely excited to announce that Makers are giving 6 of our community members the opportunity to complete their Bootcamp for free. Yes for free!Makers is a 16 week Bootcamp. In this time, you...
30. Marcy Sutton Blog
I’m an independent user interface developer and teacher specializing in web accessibility.
31. Emma Bostian Blog
I’m an American software engineer living and working in Stockholm. I love creating courses, writing blogs, and speaking at conferences.
32. Brad Frost Blog
I write HTML, CSS, and presentational JavaScript, and I aim to create experiences that look and function beautifully across anything that can access the web. If you have a project that could use my frontend help, please feel free to reach out.
Design engineering and development at Clearleft | Clearleft
However, as the roles of the front-end developer have stretched into the realms of ‘engineering’, it has created a split: Front-of-the-front-end: UI focused Back-of-the-front-end (referred to as ‘Engi...
Material Design Text Fields Are Badly Designed
saving space at the cost of clarity, ease of use and accessibility is a bad tradeoff to make. Source: Material Design Text Fields Are Badly Designed — Smashing Magazine
33. Rebecca Murphey Blog
Product-savvy engineering leader, currently working at Stripe.
34. Flavio Copes Blog
Software developer, sharing coding tutorials and tips
Ideas
Every day I’m exposed to hundreds of great ideas. Twitter. Hacker News. Reeder. Podcasts. YouTube. I have a curated inbox where every day I am interacting, mostly passively, to the most brilliant mind...
How to use window.confirm()
confirm() lets us ask confirmation before performing something. This API dates back to the dawn of the Web, and is supported by every browser. It’s very simple and I think it might come handy in many ...
35. Ian Sinnott Blog
I write about life as well as my mistakes and successes as I learn to build a business. I'm building a self-funded startup (Pairwise).
36. Kitty Giraudel Blog
I’m Kitty, a non-binary frontend developer focused on accessibility and workplace safety, currently leading the frontend team at Gorillas in Berlin.
Sass Guidelines improvements
I authored the very first version of Sass Guidelines in the first week of 2015, inspired by Harry Robert’s CSS guidelines. It went through 3 additional iterations: version 1.1 in April 2015, version 1...
An accessible toggle
Toggles (or sometimes “toggle switches”) are heavily used in modern interfaces. They tend to be relatively straightforward and can be thought as glorified checkboxes. Yet, they are often made inaccess...
37. Lynn Fisher Blog
Developer, Digital Illustrator, UI/UX Designer. My goal is to create special, niche corners of the web
Case Study: lynnandtonic.com 2020 refresh
This is a long one, so here’s some jump links if you’re looking for something specific:Folding header proof of conceptCreating the header artworkDetails make the illusionPull-tabsAbout page changing p...
38. Stefan Judis Blog
Hi, I'm Stefan. I write, speak and stream about web technology.
39. Coder's Block Blog
I'm a software engineer in Atlanta. I mostly focus on the front-end of the web. Through my site, Coder's Block, I blog and share whatever side projects I've been working on.
Diving into the ::before and ::after Pseudo-Elements
The ::before and ::after pseudo-elements are incredibly versatile tools in the CSS toolkit. Understanding them can help you craft practical CSS to solve all sorts of situations. Or you can take things...
Looking Back at 10 Years of Coder's Block
Today marks exactly 10 years since my first blog post on Coder’s Block! This is also my 100th post! To celebrate, I’m taking a look back at how Coder’s Block has changed through the years. I’m mostly ...
40. Daily Dev Tips Blog
I write daily web development tips that help you become a more efficient software developer.
41. Edidiong Asikpo Blog
Hi, my name is Edidiong Asikpo. I am a software developer based in Lagos, Nigeria specializing in building websites and technical writing.
Women are Legends!
This article is part of the #ChooseToChallenge campaign by Hashnode. I have and will always believe that women are legends. But most people in the world do not appreciate or acknowledge the hard work ...
4 Ways To Make Money With Your Developer Blog
Blogging is a great way to educate others, reinforce learning and show your expertise to a potential employer. But make no mistake: it can also be a great way to make money, either as a side hustle or...
42. Adam Wathan Blog
I'm @adamwathan, a full-stack developer and entrepreneur. I share everything I know about making awesome software through my articles, talks, screencasts, podcast, and courses.
43. The Code Barbarian Blog
Software Developer, building mongoose.js. Creator of masteringjs.io
44. Varun Vachhar Blog
Developer with a background in engineering and creative coding. I specialize in component-driven development, design systems and computational design.
Let's Build a Confetti Cannon
Confetti cannons are fun! Both to play with and to build. Let's learn to make one. Along the way, we'll cover particle systems and a bit of…
Scrollytelling with React
Scrollytelling is a visual and interactive form of storytelling. It consists of a logical sequence of visualizations. They accompany a…
45. Swizec Teller Blog
Software developer, transformed my career from making 7/hour building websites in Europe to a 6-figure job Silicon Valley. I help developers level up their skills with my newsletters, workshops, courses, and talks.
Send daily random photos from an S3 bucket using AWS Lambda – CodeWithSwiz 25
An experiment that sends daily photos from an S3 bucket to an IoT device using AWS Lambda
Your serverless questions, answered
When talk comes to serverless, engineers have lots of questions. Here are some answers 😊
46. Anton Gunnarsson Blog
I'm a web developer consultant, writing about front-end technologies.
Compound components in React
Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you need to build a component that is reusable but also very flexible so it can adapt to a…
Your framework choice isn't personal
Don't identify with your framework choice. Framework wars suck.
47. Tania Rascia Blog
I'm a software engineer and writer. I write about open-source projects and development tutorials.
Integration Tests with Jest, Supertest, Knex, and Objection in TypeScript
Recently, I set up unit and integration tests for a Node API in TypeScript, and I couldn't find a lot of resources for setting up and…
2020 into 2021
Well, 2020, it's been a slice. I've been pretty AWOL lately on all things internet, and I can't decide if I have a lot to say or if I'd…
48. bitsofcode Blog
Google Expert, Front-end developer and user interface designer from Lagos, Nigeria. Co-founder and COO of BuyCoins (YC S18), a cryptocurrency exchange for Africa.
Highlights from Chrome Dev Summit 2020
CDS in 2020 was a bit different, like everything else. It was online, and the talks were more bite-sized at roughly 10 minutes each. I really enjoyed this new style of the summit and, while I missed t...
49. Markus Oberlehner Blog
I explore how to create software that lasts. My passion is open source and I'm the creator of vue-lazy-hydration, and node-sass-magic-importer
Premium Vue and Nuxt Templates for Web Apps and Sites
Suppose you’re searching for high-quality Vue.js templates, I recommend you to take a look at the work of Creative Tim (affiliate link). In this article, I’ll show you a list of handpicked premium tem...
Tailwind CSS: The Antifragile CSS Framework
Tailwind CSS is a divisive issue in the web development world: some love it, others love to hate it. I already wrote about my thoughts about Tailwind in a separate article, and there are a ton of arti...
50. Sara Soueidan Blog
Project case studies, thought processes & design thinking, front-end strategy, techniques and best practices, useful code snippets, and practical tips and tricks focused on HTML, CSS, SVG, accessiblity, and everything in between.
🛠 Redesigning and rebuilding my Web site from the ground up
It’s about time my Web site got a complete makeover. It’s going to be more than just a fresh coat of paint. It’s going to be a complete rebuild + redesign. I’m going to rebuild this Web site from the ...
Not Your Typical Horizontal Rules
The HTML element adds a horizontal rule (or line) wherever you place it. A horizontal rule is used to provide a visual break and divide content. Like other HTML elements, horizontal rules can be styl...
51. Stats and R Blog
Running pace calculator in R Shiny
Introduction Running pace calculator How to use it? Code Introduction If you are a runner yourself, you are certainly aware of how important preparation is before a race. For the preparation of my fir...
Hypothesis test by hand
Descriptive versus inferential statistics Motivations and limitations Hypothesis test Why? When? How? Method A: Comparing the test statistic with the critical value Step #1: Stating the null and alter...
52. Chris Albon Blog
100 Day Sprint
The last few years have been hard for me. Entering 2021, I am out of shape, obese, have high blood pressure, and a pretty high heart rate. All these give me an elevated risk of hospitalization and dea...
53. Little Miss Data Blog
TikTok in R!
A quick tutorial showing how to use the tiktokrmd R package to display TikTok videos in .Rmd files and then serve them up on GitHub pages.
54. Insight Extractor Blog
All things data newsletter #13 (#dataengineer #datascience)
(if this newsletter was forwarded to you then you can subscribe here: https://insightextractor.com/) The goal of this newsletter is to promote continuous learning for data science and engineering prof...
Framework for onboarding as an Analytics leader in a new team:
1. Start with people: On a new team, start with meeting people. This includes your team, stakeholders and cross-functional partners. Ask them about the company, product, team, help they need and seek ...
55. Ben Cook Blog
NumPy arrays to PyTorch tensors and back
The basics of converting NumPy arrays to PyTorch tensors and vice versa.
TorchVision transforms
TorchVision, a PyTorch computer vision package, has a great API for image pre-processing in its torchvision.transforms module. This post gives some basic usage examples, describes the API and shows yo...
56. Data Mahadev Blog
The blend of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience
The brain commands the activities that we perform and we generate the code for the machines to make them perform those activities that we want. What if we connect our brains with the working... The po...
Top 5 Courses on Coursera for Deep Learning
To create the patterns of the human brain and train the model to think, act, decide, and work like humans it is necessary to involve the field of deep learning. The deep neural networks... The post To...
57. Data Piques Blog
Feature Stores for Self-Service Machine Learning
Features stores are now becoming a thing. Google Cloud is supporting Feast, an open source feature store, AWS announced the SageMaker Feature Store in December 2020, and tecton.ai raised a $35 Million...
Cold Air Calories
When you breathe in cold air, your body warms up that air. Simultaneously, your body temperature will lower slightly but then eventually come back to its basal temperature of $\sim$98.6$^\circ$ F (37 ...
58. Julia Silge Blog
Dimensionality reduction of #TidyTuesday United Nations voting patterns
This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from starting out with first modeling steps to tuning more complex models. One change I have recently m...
Bootstrap confidence intervals for #TidyTuesday Super Bowl commercials
This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from starting out with first modeling steps to tuning more complex models. Today’s screencast uses a re...
59. Neural Market Trends Blog
H2O Wave App Tutorials
Just like what I did with my general H2O-3 Tutorials, I’m starting a seperate H2O Wave Tutorial post for you all here. I will add to this as I go along and build more apps. Stock Chart Generator Wave ...
Passive Income - T Dividends
There are many reasons why I hold AT&T ($T) for my passive income goals. The first one is that it was around during the Great Depression and the second, it will probably be around during the next Grea...
60. Megan Sullivan Blog
Tips for Teaching a Remote Workshop
Leading a workshop remotely presents some unique challenges. This post outlines some teaching strategies to help things go smoothly.
An Intro to RSS Feeds
A brief, illustrated introduction to RSS feeds and how they work.
